Robes v. Town of Hartford

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• holding that attorneys’ fees are ordinarily unrecoverable in the absence of statutory authority or the parties' contractual provision concerning this expense, and thus unrecoverable under the private attorney general doctrine
• explaining that in considering statutory language, “we presume that the [Legislature chose its words advisedly”
• explaining that in considering statutory language, “we presume that the [L]egislature chose its words advisedly”
• “If the legislature had intended the payment of ‘current expenses,’ then it would have used the more specific term rather than the general term ‘expenses.’ ”
• in considering statutory language, \we presume that the [L]egislature chose its words advisedly\
• “[W]e presume that the legislature chose its words advisedly. If the legislature had intended the payment of ‘current expenses,’ then it would have used the more specific term rather than the general term ‘expenses.’ ” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).